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Leo: Last year I spent more on coffee than on my phone bill. I didn't notice until I added it up. Leo: Welcome to Small Money Habits, the show where we fix your finances one tiny habit at a time. I'm Leo. Every episode is under five minutes, and today we're starting with the easiest win there is: the things you buy without thinking. Leo: Habit one. Look at last month's bank statement and circle every purchase under ten dollars. Don't judge them yet. Just count them. Most people find twenty or more. Leo: Habit two. Pick one of those small purchases and give it a weekly budget instead of a daily one. Coffee becomes fifteen dollars a week. When it's gone, it's gone. Leo: Habit three. Every Sunday, move whatever is left of that budget into savings. It feels like a reward, and it is one. Leo: That's it for episode one. Try the circle test this week, and next time we'll talk about subscriptions you forgot you had. I'm Leo. Spend small, save smart.

Leo: Priya, what's the first thing a beehive taught you? Priya: [laughing] That bees do not care about my schedule. At all. Leo: Welcome to Field Notes, where we talk to people about the strange jobs and hobbies they fell into. I'm Leo, and my guest today is Priya, a software engineer who started keeping bees in her backyard last spring. Priya, welcome. Priya: Thanks, Leo. Happy to be here, and only slightly stung. Leo: Let's start at the beginning. Why bees? Priya: Honestly? I was staring at screens twelve hours a day. I wanted something alive that I couldn't fix with a keyboard shortcut. Leo: And what surprised you most in that first year? Priya: How calm it is. You move slowly, you breathe slowly, and the bees stay calm too. It's the only hour of my week where I'm not thinking about anything else. Leo: Any advice for someone who wants to try it? Priya: Join a local club before you buy a single thing. Someone will lend you a suit, and someone will tell you what you're doing wrong. You need both. Leo: Priya, thank you. That's Field Notes for this week. If you know someone with a job or hobby we should hear about, tell us. See you next time.

Narrator: The last ferry left the harbour at eleven forty. Fog had swallowed the lights on shore, and the only sound was the engine and the water against the hull. Elena: [whispering] Tom. Tom, wake up. Count the passengers. Tom: [sleepily] What? Elena, it's the same people who got on. Six of us. Elena: Count again. Narrator: Tom sat up. A man in a grey coat by the rail. Two students asleep on their bags. An old woman with a birdcage. Elena. Himself. Tom: ...Five. Where's the guy with the red umbrella? Elena: That's what I've been asking myself for ten minutes. Nobody has walked past us. There's nowhere to go. Narrator: Out on the deck, something knocked twice against the railing. Slow. Deliberate. Tom: [nervously] Okay. Okay, we go and tell the captain. Elena: Tom. The captain was the guy with the red umbrella. Narrator: Next time, on The Last Ferry.